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In reply to the discussion: Texas cops mistakenly pull over, arrest woman with 4 small children inside car [View all]passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)The two cops approached me (one on each side of my vehicle) guns drawn. The one on my side looks in the window at me, and then scans the rest of the car interior, and asks me what I'm doing in the area. I explain why I'm there, and then he says "OK...sorry, we are looking for a red vehicle (mine is reddish) with a young guy in this area who is running from the police".
The guns drawn scared me, but they didn't hassle me. They did not ask me to get out of the vehicle. They could see I was an older woman and not a young man. No need to drag me out and cuff me. This incident in the OP is appalling. It was totally unnecessary to treat her that way. Oh...btw, I'm white. If I'd been black, in a big city, I suspect it would not have gone down that way.
And the cops here tell her that they had a description that matched her car and license plate? WTF?